Month: July 2007

Over the weekend, we made the decision to remove Harmony’s training wheels. After advice from a number of people that she was tall enough to try, we figured that we should give her a few hours of attention over at Rockwell park to see how she does. Aria has been doing so well on harmony’s old bike that she didn’t stop riding the whole time! What a little trooper!

So after about a half hour of trying, we got a few feet out of Harm without too much success – and it took us at least that long to get into “patience” mode with the whole thing. Mel and i took turns walking behind her, holding her seat.

Ding dong! the Ice Cream truck pulls into the park and of course we all need some “refreshment” – so we sat on the rocks and ate Dora, Spongebob and the typical faire… Of course Mom and Harm finish first, so while I sat behind and helped Aria to not drip all over herself, Harmony goes and rides the length of the parking lot the first time out without help! Go figure!

By the end of the evening, she was starting out by herself, and beginning to take corners. The next night, we took over one of the upper parking lots over by the high school – she rode non-stop for 2 hours!

This morning we’re leaving to return home after the better part of a week here in Simonds, NB Canada. Last Sunday, we had recieved the call that Percy Allen Milbury, Melody’s remaining grandfather had passed. He was 91 and died from complications of a broken hip and fluid in the lungs. Although we were sad, we were somewhat prepared, so we decided early monday that we needed to be up here for the family.

Wednesday was July 4th – We attended the funeral and visited with the “Milbury” side of the family – lots of really interesting folks from all over! After the receptin in Tracy Mills, we made our way over to Presque Isle to take Mom and Gram out for fireworks in Limestone. We had a wonderful visit with Mom; visited her at Baptist Park for dinner, and had a nice evening and Thurs. morning at the house. We stopped by Gram’s place in the afternoon for a nice little visit, and Visited my cousin Andrew and the cows (and buster the goat) up at the dairy farm before heading back across the border.

Friday, we visited at Julie & Sheldon’s camp – ran around on some Jetskis and ate way too much food. We got to meet Dakota, and the girls (especially Aria) had lots of fun playing with bubbles, special thanks to Aunt “Sweet Marshmallow” for bringing all the cool bubble stuff! After a not-so-honest but still just-as-fun game of Skip-bo with Grammy Graham, Julie, Alan, Dakota, Marsha and Me, we decided to call it a night and play “spot the moose” all the way home.

Saturday we borrowed some quads and took to the rain-soaked trails to check out the 4-lane they’re getting so close to finishing. Now, the funny thing about that, is that they were working on the four-lane highway to replace Trans-Canada route 2 since I was in college, back in 96-97. I guess that kind of project just takes an awful long time.